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Arduino's new Nano board family is more powerful and affordable
Arduino's new Nano board family is more powerful and affordable. The most basic one will set out back $9.90.
Arduino's Nano line will soon welcome four new products. They're all small boards like the classic one, making Nano a family of small boards meant for compact projects. All the new boards boast low energy consumption and processors more powerful than what the classic has. Even better, they're all pretty affordable: the most basic entry called Nano Every, which you can use for "everyday" projects and can replace the classic Nano, will even set you back as little as $9.90.
Arduino co-founder Massimo Banzi said in a statement:
"The new Nanos are for those millions of makers who love using the Arduino IDE for its simplicity and open source aspect, but just want a great value, small and powerful board they can trust for their compact projects. With prices from as low as $9.90 for the Nano Every, this family fills that gap in the Arduino range, providing makers with the Arduino quality they deserve for those everyday projects."
(Score: 5, Informative) by RamiK on Wednesday May 22 2019, @11:11AM (2 children)
( https://www.techrepublic.com/article/arduino-reveals-new-powerful-low-cost-nano-boards-for-building-homemade-hardware-and-gadgets/ [techrepublic.com] )
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 22 2019, @12:05PM (1 child)
No words about consumption anywhere. When battery-operated, that could be a killer. On one particular project, I even crushed the power-on led on the board and reduced the idle current by a whooping 3mAmps, the sucker.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 22 2019, @08:39PM
If you want low power, battery powered, you don't want arduino anyway. You want to design your own.
https://www.microchip.com/design-centers/lowpower [microchip.com]
What other thing runs at this type of power level? A 2032 3V 150mAh battery could then run such a sucker at 1MHz for 7 months. And if your duty cycle is only 5% and rest you can sleep, then that extends the duty cycle of this button battery to 10 years.